Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali's works continually challenged convention by questioning our normal sense of the "real." As a surrealist painter and skilled draftsman his objective was to make accessible the realms of the unconscious, irrational and imaginary. An expansive movement that extended beyond the canvas. He embraced literature, music, cinema, philosophy and popular culture as not only a painter but as a graphic artist, filmmaker and writer.  "Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure," he once said, " That of being Salvador Dali."